Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Schools Matter: Lawsuit against The Accelerated Schools corporate charter chain

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First published on Schools Matter on December 18, 2019 This action against The Accelerated Schools (TAS) corporation , on behalf of Mi...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Schools Matter: A charter school story

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First published on Schools Matter on April 16, 2019 I want to apologize to Schools Matter readers for my infrequent contributions. I ...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

LAUSD District 5 Special Election morning after (March 6, 2019)

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Looks like the two good candidates — Jackie Goldberg and Graciela Ortiz — will be in the run-off, and the vile California Charter Schools ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Professor Anita Faye Hill, Esq.

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This brilliant attorney and legal scholar was smeared and slandered by a wealthy, white male politician in order to protect an arch-reacti...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

PEOPLES COLLEGE OF LAW COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY CLASS OF 2018

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Thursday, June 21, 2018

How fringe-right are business banker Marshall Tuck’s education views?

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How reactionary is Marshall Tuck on education issues? One measure is to compare his views to those of the notoriously right-wing JBS and GOP...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Florina Rodov: The Truth About Charter Schools

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“[W]hen teachers aren’t unionized, they’re exploited — and when teachers suffer, so do kids.” — Florina Rodov This amazing piece by Florin...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Resisting ICE is the principled thing to do

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Nine years ago the Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC), Brown Berets, Union del Barrio, and others organized a protest agains...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Elmo isn't Gramsci for kids and the mythical soft bigotry of low expectations

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This short essay was originally published on The Daily Censored on August 11, 2011 . It would seem that all of the old works on that site a...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

Stop Wendy Carrillo from implementing the Betsy DeVos agenda!

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“[C]harter schools with privately appointed boards do not represent the public but make decisions about how public funds are spent…” — NAACP...
Friday, October 06, 2017

Jeanne Allen: Reactionary Right-Wing Extremist

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Allen: On board with ALEC It’s general knowledge that Center for Education Reform (CER), and its CEO Jeanne Allen, are extremely right-w...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Conference presentation on criminal defendant Ref Rodriguez

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Legal scholar Robert D. Skeels gave a twenty minute talk on criminal defendant Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez of the California Charter Schools A...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Criminal defendant Ref Rodriguez, an introduction

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Corporate charter school mogul Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez has been in the news lately. First, for his being elected President of the Los Ange...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Schools Matter: Time to end the racist triumvirate of Tuck, Huppenthal, and Horne

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First published on Schools Matter on August 29, 2017 It’s a tale of white fragility and fear, really.— Imani Gandy These two racist...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Grit by any other name is torture

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Angela Duckworth and her "academic" mentor Martin Seligman helped develop torture models that the CIA uses in places like Iraq. ...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Charter schools harm students

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Remediation costs from charter high school “graduates” getting into college, but not having basic proficiency are astronomical both in ter...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Senator Bernie Sanders endorses Padilla and Zimmer for LAUSD

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Senator Bernie Sanders stands against right-wing privatizers like Melvoin. Sanders endorses Padilla and Zimmer for LAUSD. https://charter...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Schools Matter: Privatizer Nick Melvoin wants Betsy DeVos style policies for Los Angeles

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First published on Schools Matter on May 13, 2017 "Melvoin’s people are not ordinary constituents passing daily through LAUSD’...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Graphic Essay: Betsy DeVos' 'School Choice' Movement Isn't Social Justice. It's a Return to Segregation.

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Charters and vouchers have always been intended to break public schools, and wrest education away from the public commons. "School choi...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Tell California State Senators to support SB 808

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Network for Public Education (NPE) is helping to support California Senate Bill 808. The legislation, while it doesn't go far enough,...